Conductor-pipe



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E. VAN NOORDEN.

` CONDUCTOR PIPE. No. 253,564. Patented Feb. 14,1882.

` UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EZEKIL VAN NOORDEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CONDUCTOR-PIPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,564, dated February 14, 1882.

Application tiled October 14, 1881.

To all whom 'it m ay concern:

Be tknown that I, EZEKIEL VAN NooRDEN, of Boston, rin the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Conductor-Pipes, of which the following is a specification.

This improvement relates to the metallic pipes used for conducting the water from the gutters and roofs of buildings; and it has for its object the strengthening ot' such pipes in such a manner that the action of the ice and frost cannot injure or burst them.

Intheaccompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indica te like parts, Figure 1 is a View of a portion of'a conductor-l pipe with its sections separated. Fig. 2 is a View of the same with its sections united.

A A' represent two sections ot' pipe constructed in the usual manner.

B is a piece of metal Wire wound spirally round the pipe, as shown, and terminating at each end in a hook, B', formed by bending the Wire back upon itself. The wire is secured to the pipe near its ends by staples O, which are driven into the pipe and clinched on the inside. This wire is wound upon and secured to the pipe while it is in sections, one wire for each section, as in Fig. 1. When the sections are united to form the conductor the wires upon said sections are secured together by slipping a loop of Wire, D, over the hooks B nexteach other, thus securingthe wires together and making them practically one Wire. These loops D may be of any convenient shape, the one shown heilig perhaps the simplest, it being formed by passing a short piece of wire through the two hooks B', and twisting theends together. The hooks are left conveniently open in order that they may be readily tied together. The wire may be fastened to the pipe in any practicable manner, the staples C being probably the mostconvenient.

Each section of pipe is constructedpwith an (No model.)

expansion-joint, E, which allows of a very slight expansion until checked by the wire above described.

I am aware that in the construction of elastic or pliable hose-pipes or tubes wire has been eX- ternally wound thereupon. In one instance a rubber or elastic pipe for such purposes has been wound with wire next the end into which the water ows,therebyimparting rigidity and stiness at that point. In another instance leather-tinned wire coils, and another external substance covering the Wire have been employed in the construction of an elastic or pliable pipe. My device differs from thesein object and construction, beingastiff metallic pipe for conducting water from roofs, made in sections, each of which is spirally .wound with wire in such a manner that the coils are at considerable distances apart, each section being complete in itself, The object is solely to prevent the bursting of the pipe from the action of the frost.

Having thus fully described my invention, what l claim, and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A water-conductor pipe, made in sections, each section provided with an expansion-joint and externallywound with wire, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with the pipe A, the wire B, wound spirally around it andprovided with the hooked ends B', said wire being fastened immovably to the pipe, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In combination with the sections A A' of pipe, the wire B, provided with the hooked ends B', the adjacent ends of two Wires heilig connected by the wire loop D, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

EZEKIEL VAN NOORDEN.

W'itnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, JOSEPH IsHBAUGH. 

